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Microsoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase

News Speaking at Microsoft's financial analyst meeting, Ballmer said: "Now we aren't [talking] and that's where things are. are firmly in the "off-again" phase. Take the survey now… He said there are other options around this Catch-22 but said he wasn't... [25 Jul 2008]

Take stock for tough times

Comment There are excellent examples where retailers have reduced SKUs by 20 per cent and enjoyed a three per cent increase in sales. Staff need to be aware of the importance they play in the sales process and be incentivised appropriately. [24 Jul 2008]

Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown

Comment In addition to fake brands and trademark infringements, another area of concern for brands is grey market trading, where goods are imported and resold for highly inflated prices. Brand owners and sites need to work together to police against... [22 Jul 2008]

Photos: Broadband in London's Victorian sewers

Photo silicon.com took a trip out to the east end of London, to the Thames Water depot near Stratford, for a rare trip down inside London's Victorian sewer network to see a much more high-tech network which it is now hosting - Geo's business broadband... [22 Jul 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 18.07.08

Round-Up Yet another call to the O2 store yielded the following update: the iPhone was expected back in stock on Wednesday, but they're now hoping it will arrive Friday. After receiving an increasing number of disparaging and pitying glances from passers-by... [18 Jul 2008]

Legal Eye: Trademark landmark

Comment Consider also the recent changes to trademark keyword bidding on Google, where all and sundry can now bid on trademark-registered terms during the pay-per-click auction process. With the details at their fingertips, consumers are now better... [16 Jul 2008]

Privacy chief fights UK-wide database

News Both the MoD and the HMRC are now required to show steps they have taken to improve data protection compliance in response to the ICO enforcement notices. A database of all calls, emails and internet traffic, to be stored by the Home Office for at... [15 Jul 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 11.07.08

Round-Up Now, the Round-Up feels sorry (slightly) for these people as they're apparently suffering from paranoia that their colleagues will be making them look bad in their absence. Yet they are pressing ahead with ID cards. [11 Jul 2008]

Artificial Intelligence - alive and kicking

News What AI's done by trying to set itself lofty goals about understanding how to build intelligent software or flexible software, it's produced along the way tonnes of methods and insights that are now routinely deployed everywhere. [10 Jul 2008]

The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?

Comment Their skills are in the wrong area, they are the wrong age, they are the wrong sex. Confused IT skills policies in schools and colleges are part of the problem. But they're being combined with a widespread failure to tap into existing talent, says... [09 Jul 2008]

Privacy concerns over Google Street View

News We will be asking Google whether it will be following its US model [where faces are blurred and those pictured can have themselves removed]. Horvath wrote to Davies: "As with all such systems operating at this scale our blurring technology is not... [09 Jul 2008]

UK games industry needs to go back to uni

News Watts pointed out that many UK grads are seeking work abroad in countries such as Canada where prospects can be better - and said the UK games industry must therefore play its part in ensuring skilled and talented grads don't go elsewhere. [08 Jul 2008]

Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors

Photo Desk space could be booked for two hours at a time - and there was also a boardroom and 'creative zone' up for grabs where office workers could indulge in a little 'blue sky thinking'.silicon.com reporters Natasha Lomas and Tim Ferguson went down... [08 Jul 2008]

Implementing Virtualization: Techniques and Tools for Microsoft Windows Conversion

White Paper Most IT professionals know or suspect that virtualization of computer systems may have an important role in their organization's evolving infrastructure - though where and how are likely under investigation. [07 Jul 2008]

Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge

News It's also happening as people's work and attentions are shifting from software that runs on their own PCs, and that they can control whether to install or upgrade, to software that runs online, such as through the Facebook or Google application... [30 Jun 2008]

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